And Intelligence Online, which claims it "sheds light on aspects of intelligence that escape the wider news media," says it has learned about Aisha's supposed desire because that's what she has told "confidants from Europe."

Aisha and some other members of her now-deceased father's family are reportedly in Algeria. She's said to be fearful that authorities there will send her back to Libya.

The idea of a member of the Libyan dictator's family settling in Israel after all the state-sponsored terrorism aimed at Jews and others during Gadhafi's more than 40 years in power seems far-fetched. As the Times says, Israel "would probably balk at harboring the daughter of a slain Arab dictator."

But, as The Economist has reported, there have been rumors for years of Jewish roots in the Gadhafi family tree, via a Jewish great-grandmother. And some supposed cousins of Gadhafi's in Israel even wanted him to seek refuge there — and said that he should have claimed Israeli citizenship as Jews may do.